12 categories · RankedHomebase
Homebase is an all-in-one platform for employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll and related HR tasks, built for small businesses with hourly teams · joinhomebase.com ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Deputy. Thin evidence at enterprise: two labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Deputy has 17%.
Ranked first, contested: Deputy has 16%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
UKG Pro Workforce Management is first at 67%.
Why models recommend it
“consistently top ranked for small business workforce management... Need zero cost to start and basic scheduling/time clocks: Homebase free plan”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For the tightest budgets, Homebase (free tier) or Clockify (free up to 5 users) are excellent starting points.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Strictly $0 Budget | Homebase or Connecteam | Generous free tiers for essential clock-in/out and scheduling.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Homebase is usually the safest first pick for small teams because it's explicitly positioned as budget-friendly”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Strong on time‑clock / overtime enforcement, but weak on reporting or audit‑trail features for broader compliance”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“I'm not citing this one because the best current comparison would depend on the specific package you're evaluating”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · warning
“Homebase also has a free option, but it is limited to one location and up to 10 employees.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“far more robust and compliant than entry-level tools (like Homebase or 7shifts)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Homebase, over the 382 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 248 | 56 | Compare → | |
| 202 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 201 | 22 | Compare → | |
| 100 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 75 | 16 | View → | |
| 74 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 69 | 11 | View → | |
| 68 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 64 | 15 | View → | |
| 62 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Homebase →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Homebase's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- small businesses with hourly teams
- Price stated
- Basic $0; Essentials $24; Plus $56; All-in-One $96
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free to get started, no credit card required; 14-day Homebase free trial
- Integrations
- 17
- Certifications
- CCPA, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, PIPEDA, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3
- Customers named
- Plato's Closet, Green & Bisque, Butter Baker, Gusto, ADP, Lightspeed Commerce, Square, Shopify.com
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 353 of the 382 answers that named Homebase and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
850 of the 946 domain citations in answers naming Homebase came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,661 | 13 | 2026-09-23 | Payroll software, Workforce scheduling | |
| Glossary or explainer | 917 | 0 | 2026-06-08 | Payroll software, Time and attendance | |
| Comparison | 146 | 6 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Case study | 57 | 0 | 2022-12-19 | ||
| Template or tool | 49 | 1 | 2026-08-28 | Employee onboarding | |
| Conference or event | 16 | 0 | 2025-12-17 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page joinhomebase.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.